Music Video Ideas

Music Video Ideas

Here are some of my ideas for storylines of songs that have been recently released. I have tried to get across the narrative that I have in my mind and also shed a bit of light when it comes to the style of cinematography. I am certain that I want to pick a topic that picks up on the lives of ‘real’ people in the UK, so have chosen songs that would reflect that. I am also very keen to voice a political opinion. Whether that will make the audience question the views, or just learn something from someone else’s point of view.

The King Blues- Holiday

 Narrative: The narrative of the video will follow the storyline of the song. This is one that describes an old seaside town that used to thrive during the peak of the British holiday. This town is now not what it used to be in today’s world and has become a place that time has forgot. But even though this place is now worthless, socially and economically, it still has the spirit at heart. So the town in crumbling around a couple falling in love.

I would uncover all these things that make the town so much of a great holiday destination and the things that have made it so old fashioned. This will involve many short close up shots on many symbolic objects. To counter this, there will be parts of performance in some world famous places. One of them being the Great Yarmouth Britannia pier, followed by The Great Yarmouth Pleasure beach and Hippodrome circus.

Some inspiration for the style of cinematography would be that seen in the pictures by the photographer Martin Parr. I will also use the video ‘our house is dadless’ from the band, Kid British, as this creates the voyeurism to the real lifestyle up north and the video I want to create will do this with a defunct seaside town.

Labtinth ft. Tinie Tempah – Earthquake

Narrative: the narrative would be based around normal everyday people in London, going out and rioting. Whoever you are, white, black, male, female, old, young, rich or poor. What would be the symbolism bringing these people together are the stereotypical hoodie that is so frequently linked to riots and uncontrollable events led by young people.

The recent summer riots that took over London for three days rocked the country to its core, as the media beam images around the world of the looters who have taken advantage of some peoples very unfortunate situation, means that many have a bad opinion of young people in the UK. What the video would be about is looking at these riots from another point of view and looking at the people who did actually cause this disruption in such a good city.

To adhere to the codes and conventions of Goodwin’s analysis, linking the music and visuals would see that gospel chorus within the song, being sung by a ‘gang’ and their identities hidden. This would symbolise that these people are not people; they don’t have a heart so why should they have a face.

In true hip hop style the artists would sing from the rooftops, literally, in their full swag looking over a city in mass panic.

Kid British – Bookies

Narrative: Coming from an album about the northern stories, about the lives of those living in Manchester, it is important to capture the true spirit of the song with this.

Although we live in a time of the recession, bookmakers and bingo halls are still bursting with people, throwing their money away. But why are they doing this? Who is doing this? Well, the video for this song would get into the lives of the people that spend their Friday nights and their week’s wages on a night in the bingo hall, every week, but still don’t have enough money to feed themselves and their children.

The song states that these people have nothing else, but why has it come to that?

The style of the video will be an old 80’s style of film, of quick shots and pans that reveal the life of real people. Symbolic objects and props will dominate (bingo dabbers and the tiny bookies pens). I think that it is also useful to focus on the life of those that waste away in a pub.

We are spending more money on alcohol and betting than ever before and that isn’t just because of a price increase. This is because we are falling back into the social and political turmoil of the Thatcher days.

One thing that is for certain is that this band uses social commentary within their songs to give the political voice and this is one thing I want to emphasise.